Imagine coming into your home office this morning and finding your files LOCKED and a demand for bitcoin on your screen--would you panic?  Of course you would.

Here is a snip from one actual report: “It's hard to estimate how much data has been lost exactly, but we estimate we have lost at least 5000 projects, 5000 comments, and roughly 700 users.”

As the Coronavirus captures the news, Afilias has invoked its business continuity protocols to ensure continuation of 24x7 service to clients despite the disruptions related to the virus.

Afilias supports our registry and registrar clients with redundant resources that help make our services disaster resistant. For example:

The Framework to Address Abuse launched earlier this year in October with eleven original signatories. We are proud to announce that there are now 48 signatory registrars and registries that have bound themselves to these principles. 

We encourage any other registrar or registry that does not follow these principles yet to add their names so that we can all do our part to make the DNS and the Internet a more...

Afilias is pleased to join our fellow DNS industry leaders in supporting the Framework to Address Abuse of the DNS. You can download and read the full Framework document here. DNS abuse undermines confidence in the global internet and we all have a role to play in keeping the internet as safe as it can be. We believe the Framework published today is an important step in moving the discussion...